The phrase "absorb strikes" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone or something is taking in or enduring impacts, whether physical or metaphorical.
Example: "The shield was designed to absorb strikes from enemy weapons, ensuring the safety of the soldiers behind it."
Alternatives: "withstand blows" or "take hits".
Critics have maintained that surplus military gear diverted from the Pentagon to civilian police — items ranging from uniforms to sniper rifles to vehicles designed to absorb strikes from improvised explosive devices — produce an overly aggressive law enforcement posture.
Rousey's in-your-face clinch game and ability to absorb strikes will be key here.
But Diaz knows how to absorb strikes; he's only been knocked out once in 21 Octagon appearances, as a result of a Josh Thompson head kick in 2013.
He has managed to surprise all in Washington, London and Arab capitals with his ability to absorb the strikes of the first days of confrontation, to turn the psychological war directed against him into a source of self-confidence, and to manipulate America's overwhelming military superiority in his favour.
Silva had only absorbed 166 strikes (combined) in his previous 11 matches.
As a result, the dangers of the "peaceful" atom have often proved hard to absorb before disaster strikes -- as at the Three Mile Island reactor near Middletown, Pennsylvania, on March 28 , 1979
But Bisping, known for his unorthodox head movement and striking, absorbed the early strikes before landing a spectacular hook to send Rockhold to the canvas.
There was a desperate lack of invention in the Wales attacks, a predictability that Scotland absorbed before striking out themselves.
Both the company and the union have said that they could absorb a long strike, but both are already feeling the effects.
He knew how to absorb blows without striking back, to wait until emotions had cooled and it was possible to have a reasonable discussion.
Each safely secured more than enough nukes to be able to absorb a "first strike" that would devastate its territory, leaving possibly tens of millions of its citizens dead or wounded, and still return the (dis)favor.
